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Do you have what it takes to be a beauty queen?

Maxine Medina is the next Filipina beauty queen vying for the title of Miss Universe.

Contrary to popular belief, beauty pageants are more than a contest of being the prettiest girl in the room.

Over the recent years, Filipina beauty queens have been consistent title contenders in the beauty pageant circuit and this sort of reputation doesn’t happen overnight.

For those who would want to have an idea on the kind of training that our beauty queens undergo, Preview had gone straight to Aces & Queens experts and beauty queen trainers Bessie Besana, Atty. Nab Bronce, Arnold Mercado, and Jonas Gaffud for a teaser.

Beauty queen survival kit.

Fashion designer and pageant coach Bessie Besana enumerated the essentials in a pageant.

“Compact, lipstick. A shawl or scarf would also come in handy for styling purposes and in case she finds it cold.